El Camino Es Largo
by Edgar Sajcabún
Guatemala, 2017
synopsis
A boy goes to school for the first time.
about the director
Edgar Noé Sajcabun Mux is a Guatemalan filmmaker of Maya origin. He graduated in Screenwriting from the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, in 2007, and received a screenwriting residency award in Kautokeino, Norway, in 2012. He was the screenwriter of the feature film The Largest House in the World, which premiered in the Generation section of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015. As a director and screenwriter, he made the short film Xik Vuh, which won the Ícaro Award for Best Central American Short Film in 2014 and the Main Film Award (Relève – Jeune Espoir) for Best Screenplay in Montreal, Canada, in 2015. His short film The Road Is Long received a Special Mention at the Anaconda Awards in Asunción, Paraguay, in 2018. He is also the director and screenwriter of the fiction feature Mars at Dusk, which was presented at Ciné en Construction in Toulouse, France, in 2025 and is scheduled to have its world premiere in 2026.
